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The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

Posted Jun 15, 2005 15:31 UTC (Wed) by beoba (guest, #16942)
Parent article: The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

Now that the project is more independant of Redhat, does XMMS play MP3's?


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The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

Posted Jun 16, 2005 1:51 UTC (Thu) by jwboyer (subscriber, #23296) [Link]

Nope. And the project hasn't transitioned to a Fedora Foundation as of yet.

The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

Posted Jun 16, 2005 1:52 UTC (Thu) by jwboyer (subscriber, #23296) [Link]

Oh, and XMMS is no longer in Fedora Core. It's in Fedora Extras though.

The Amazing Fedora Core 4!

Posted Jun 16, 2005 15:48 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

Playing MP3s requires paying for a licence for patented CODECs. Can't be done on a free (as in beer) distribution. Besides, Red Hat (and Fedora) pledge distributing only open source, so...

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